BIB_ID
436582
Accession number
MA 3315.71
Creator
Doyle, Henry Edward, 1827-1892, sender.
Display Date
London, England, between 1840 and 1845.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with the special assistance of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Page, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) : illustrations ; 22.5 x 18.1 cm
Notes
Location and date of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Illustrated on page 1 with Henry looking at Raphael's "Pope Julius"; illustrated on page 2 with Henry running out of the East Room carrying a painting with 4 angry men chasing him; illustrated on page 3 with a crowd watching Baily's statue of Nelson being hoisted onto a platform and Prince Albert in a window.
Part of a large collection of letters from Richard Doyle (51 items), Henry Edward Doyle (25 items), and Charles Altamont Doyle (3 items) to their father, John Doyle. See collection-level record for more information.
High reserve.
Illustrated on page 1 with Henry looking at Raphael's "Pope Julius"; illustrated on page 2 with Henry running out of the East Room carrying a painting with 4 angry men chasing him; illustrated on page 3 with a crowd watching Baily's statue of Nelson being hoisted onto a platform and Prince Albert in a window.
Part of a large collection of letters from Richard Doyle (51 items), Henry Edward Doyle (25 items), and Charles Altamont Doyle (3 items) to their father, John Doyle. See collection-level record for more information.
High reserve.
Provenance
Richard Doyle; Arthur Conan Doyle; Adrian Conan Doyle. Purchased from House of El Dieff, 1974.
Summary
Telling his father that he went to the National Gallery the other day to look at a painting by Sebastian del Piombo; writing about how he couldn't take his eyes off of Raphael's "Pope Julius"; adding that Leonardo da Vinci's "Christ disputing with the doctors" made him want to commit a robbery; saying the other picture he saw was Van dyke's [sic] "Gevartius" (van Dyck's portrait of Gaspar Gevaerts); stating that he saw a crowd watching the Edward Hodges Baily statue of Nelson being hoisted onto a platform and saw Prince Albert looking out a window when he was on George Street.
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